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Monday, March 31, 2003

The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.
--G. K. Chesterton

A deadly respiratory infection, provisionally called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), is spreading quickly around the world. Reports have come in from Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Romania, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam, prompting the World Health Organization to issue a global alert for the first time in more than a decade. Australia has just issued warning to all travellers to reconsider visiting certain parts of South East Asia.